This quarter at school has reminded me of 8th grade all over again.
Hebrew has reached a point where a vast understanding of English grammar is necessary to properly translate. Most of the class seems lost on the English grammar terms.
Today in Gospels class, we worked on charting the flow of a text grammatically. I was asked by the person sitting next to me, "How can you tell the difference between the subject and the object?"
It amazes me. Not that people don't remember, because my wife ensures me I'm the rare case that still knows what the accusative case, or split infinitives are. I'm just surprised at how little today's students (as a whole, not individuals) know about their dominant language.
It isn't even that I think people should have lots of discussions throughout life so that they remember, I'm just surprised (because I hadn't really noticed it until discussions came up in Seminary) how little we know.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
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So, do you want to be reminded of gramatical/spelling errors in your blog?
It isn't that important to me in this setting. I actually write these and don't proofread them at all. I run a spellcheck, and Jenny fixes the ones she finds when she reads it, but since I don't really look back over them, they don't bother me at all.
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